Sumerian, Babylonian, and Chaldean

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Sumerian

• The Seven Evil Spirits (3 pages)

• The Seven Tablets of Creation by Leonard King (119 pages)

• Adapa and the Food of Life (3 pages)

• Enuma Elish (20 pages) The Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and of Mankind. The Enuma Elish is one of the oldest stories known to mankind. It is a story first written down by the ancient Sumerians thousands of years ago. As a one time assistant in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, L.W. King provides us with a qualified translation of the tablets which were originally written in cuneiform script. The Enuma Elish is receiving renewed interest from modern researchers delving into the origins of mankind, the earth, and the solar system. Over the centuries a copy ended up in the library at Nineveh in the 7th century B.C., and was uncovered by archaeologists in the late 1800s. Written in cuneiform text and preserved on seven clay tablets, the entire story was called "The Seven Tablets of Creation." After being translated the story revealed how the planets became aligned, how a cosmic catastrophe affected the earth, how mankind came upon the scene, and how the "gods" played a role in all of it. The Seven Tablets of Creation have had many profound implications since they were first discovered and subsequently published. They predate many parts of the Book of Genesis as well as other worldwide creation myths. Volume One includes this epic poem's English translation. It also includes information on parallels in Hebrew literature, the date and origin of the Babylonian creation legends, and more. Volume Two includes other accounts of creation, an Assyrian "Tower of Babel" story, and supplementary texts showing the actual cuneiform tablets.

• Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Robert Temple (67 pages)

• Inana's descent to the Nether World (8 pages)

• Chart of the Elder Gods (4 pages) Questionable Chart included in the Necronomicon provided for information only.

• Sumer, Babylon, and Hittites (29 pages)

• Sumerian Grammatical Texts by Stephen Langdon (20 pages)

• Sumerian Grammar (7 pages)

• The Origin of Sumerian Language (9 pages)

• Sumerian Mythology FAQ (20 pages)

• Sumerian Lexicon by John A. Halloran (159 pages) The following lexicon contains 1,255 Sumerian logogram words and 2,511 Sumerian compound words. A logogram is a reading of a cuneiform sign which represents a word in the spoken language. Sumerian scribes invented the practice of writing in cuneiform on clay tablets sometime around 3400 B.C. in the Uruk/Warka region of southern Iraq. The language that they spoke, Sumerian, is known to us through a large body of texts and through bilingual cuneiform dictionaries of Sumerian and Akkadian, the language of their Semitic successors, to which Sumerian is not related. These bilingual dictionaries date from the Old Babylonian period (1800-1600 B.C.), by which time Sumerian had ceased to be spoken, except by the scribes. The earliest and most important words in Sumerian had their own cuneiform signs, whose origins were pictographic, making an initial repertoire of about a thousand signs or logograms. Beyond these words, two-thirds of this lexicon now consists of words that are transparent compounds of separate logogram words.

Babylonian

• Sumer, Babylon, and Hittites (29 pages)

• Legends of Babylon and Egypt (110 pages)

• The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish (20 pages)

• The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets (28 pages)

• The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus G. Pinches (48 pages)

• The Reports of the Magicians & Astrologers of Nineveh & Babylon, c. 2500 - 670 BCE (8 pages)

• The History of Bel (3 pages)

• The Code of Hammurabi King of Babylon (34 pages)

• Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the religion of the ancient Babylonians (564 pages)

Chaldean Section

• Books on Egypt and Chaldea by E.A. Wallis Budge (79 pages)

• The Chaldaick Oracles of Zoroaster And his Followers With the Expositions of Pletho and Psellus (68 pages)

• The Chaldĉan Oracles Attributed To Zoroaster (13 pages)

External Links:

• The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary

• http://www.cwru.edu/univlib/preserve/Etana/Etana.html

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